Word: nanosecond
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...time is indeed right. For the title refers to that brief moment in 1931 when the Spanish Republic was proclaimed, ending the long night of decadent monarchy and preceding the still darker night of civil war and Francoism. It was a historical nanosecond when everyone felt frisky intellectually and emotionally, and this surprising film, which wears its complexities so lightly, pays sweet tribute to that spirit. It is rendered the more poignant by our knowledge -- not, of course, shared by the characters -- of how brief and repressible their irrepressibility would prove...
...charges surfaced. He didn't outright admit to philandering. He said "everyone" knew what he meant, and probably everyone did, but Clinton wasn't going to be any clearer. He didn't break American laws, he said, when the pot-smoking charges flew -- a dodge that held for a nanosecond, until it was revealed that Clinton's noninhaling had taken place in England. And then there was the draft...
...Surf the edges. When the world is changing by the nanosecond, the best way to keep your head above water is to stay at the front end of the Zeitgeist...
...conelike fashion and rendered approximate." It was a fool's errand. Clinton stared at the chart, pointed to the cone that represented his advisers' estimate that the numbers were off by at least $24 billion (and perhaps much more) and said, "What's this?" In a nanosecond, an old debate reopened over two items Clinton is counting on to cut the deficit $67 billion over four years. The first involves the President-elect's proposal to recapture $45 billion (over four years) in tax receipts he believes is owed by foreign corporations doing business in the U.S. Among those...
...commandant's daughter to join her father there and the anarchy that follows his surrender. Even Magua, the treacherous Indian villain of the piece, played with deadly relish by Wes Studi, is given a good motive for his dastardliness, the dignity of his otherness and even allowed a nanosecond of pity for one of his victims. Above all Mann has seen to it that something spooky, suspenseful or just plain action packed happens every five minutes. In the process he has eliminated the last traces of Cooper's high-viscosity prose and sentiments...